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Article Quotes:

"Last year, a study by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that people working in agriculture – including farmers, farm laborers, ranchers, fishers, and lumber harvesters – take their lives at a rate higher than any other occupation. The data suggested that the suicide rate for agricultural workers in 17 states was nearly five times higher, compared with that in the general population."

"The US farmer suicide crisis echoes a much larger farmer suicide crisis happening globally: an Australian farmer dies by suicide every four days; in the UK, one farmer a week takes his or her own life; in France, one farmer dies by suicide every two days; in India, more than 270,000 farmers have died by suicide since 1995."

Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...record-numbers


This situation isn't new ... it's been going on for years now.
I can only wonder how things are here on Canadian farms.

Selkirk